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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: feevers] 7
#28161337 - 01/28/23 12:47 PM (1 year, 26 minutes ago) |
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Yessss
I just got some spicy Korean fried chicken

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Any other spicy food addicts? 6
#28158592 - 01/26/23 03:39 PM (1 year, 1 day ago) |
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Probably 4/5 of my meals I'm adding some sort of chili powder/flake/fresh/ferment . I have a problem
What are some of your favorite spicy foods?
When ordering out I'm a huge fan of Thai and Indian, they're the only ones who reliably seem to actually crank up the heat. One thai restaurant I go to lets you order by the number of thai chili's you want in your dish, it's awesome
My favorites are basil fried rice or yellow curry for thai, tikka masala and a good vindaloo or curry for indian. I have basically a bucket of full dried thai chili flakes that I add to any thai food, and smoked ghost chili flakes or smoked reaper powder for indian. I don't eat out much but will specifically go to the thai restaurants that bring you the little chili condiment thing (forget the thai name for it)
For typical american food, I actually really like the reaper blazin wings at Buffalo Wild Wings. They're not super spicy unless you're in the restaurant and do the challenge, but the flavor is really good and there's definitely some decent heat to them.
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: Hertz] 6
#28414353 - 07/30/23 06:26 PM (5 months, 26 days ago) |
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Three kinds The ones in the little pile, last pic, left to right: Cayenne, Jalapeño (middle, red & green) on the right Tempiqueno, omg omg, my new fav hot pepper. These bitches are hot af and the flavour profile is amazing. Jalapeño’s love them, they are a staple. I got six of each plant so I will be making some sauce... when I feel like it, but will Update 
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Here’s the chiles I grow every year to put in just about everything. Carolina Reapers. My favorite chiles are jalapeños, although they definitely don’t qualify as spicy or hot. I love them best as chiles toreados and grow them too since I can only find green jalapeños where I live. I have no idea why they don’t let them fully ripen to red.
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: feevers] 4
#28180186 - 02/09/23 09:11 PM (11 months, 11 days ago) |
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Spicy food is weird because if you genuinely have a high tolerance, you can't really discuss it openly in most places without people accusing you of trying to sound tough or macho or some dumb shit. For me to get a burn it usually takes an extremely potent product, and I can handle and enjoy basically everything but the crazy extracts/concentrates. It's not something I take any sort of pride in though. I don't even know why I have such a high tolerance, I used to struggle through the average mildly spicy thai/indian curry. I think it was just a gradual escalation of heat level that got me there.
Awhile back my indian friend's wife cooked for us and we were both dying on the amount of chili's she put in it, she then proceeded to pour a bowl for herself, take a bite and decide that she needed to add on a whole heap of dried smoked ghost chilis because it wasn't hot enough for her. I'd never met anyone who was even in the same ballpark as me spicy food tolerance-wise, but this lady was on a whole different level. It's a cool thing to bond over, we all love the combination of the flavor and I guess just hurting ourselves for fun
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: feevers] 4
#28318396 - 05/13/23 02:38 PM (8 months, 11 days ago) |
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I love spicy foods. I'm currently growing super hot chiles in the garden. The giant chocolate bhutla looked intense the last time I grew them, and I'm hoping the seeds I saved look the same. Can't wait to dry and powder all the peppers this year 
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: falcon] 4
#28559285 - 11/28/23 10:13 AM (1 month, 30 days ago) |
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Last month I made 3 batches of lactofermented hot sauce for the first time. One had a lot of blueberries, I was hoping to get a bit of sweetness but all I got was acidity, still tastes great though. One had a lot of garlic, dill and some fennel, it turned out less spicy but super flavorful, it became my favorite. One was made with the leftovers as I bought way too many hot peppers, no recipe in mind but still came out great. I did add 10% apple cider vinegar, but that was more for shelf life than taste. To make the sauces more homogenous I added a bit of xanthan gum when blending as it doesn't need to be heated in order to emulsify.
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: feevers] 3
#28161101 - 01/28/23 10:15 AM (1 year, 2 hours ago) |
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I like the ferments, mild though, this is habenaro and onion with larger solids and filtered out. Habenaros were seed and the pith taken out for this ferment so it's still only on the hot side of mild. 
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: ashfiken] 3
#28226980 - 03/12/23 09:55 PM (10 months, 11 days ago) |
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Not sure I would qualify as an addict, but more and more spicy food seems to be creeping into my diet over the past few years. Started with ramen, now I can't have it without a dash or 2 or 5 of Siracha. I actually got some heirloom hot pepper seeds from an old Italian guy I met a few years back, and now I use them for red pepper flakes in pasta and pizza and I make hot sauce from them as well - right between cayenne and habanero in heat level, maybe around 100k scoville. A friend tricked me into having a homemade reaper sauce last year, and now that I know I can survive that 15 min. endorphin trip - sky's the limit. I've actually got multiple colors of sweet and hot pepper seeds to grow this year so all my hot sauces are naturally color coded based on heat level. Oh... oh god... maybe I do have a problem... maybe I am an addict???
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: hadope] 3
#28318467 - 05/13/23 03:57 PM (8 months, 11 days ago) |
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Dude! Those look lethal!
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Got humbled the other night for the first time in like a decade of eating the spiciest stuff I can find
Just a reminder how big a role tolerance plays with spicy food.
Went to a Dave's Hot Chicken. I've got their reaper powdered tender + slide meal like 6 times before, sign the waiver and all of that. Usually it's fine and I end up adding extra reaper mash or hot sauce to it because it's not spicy enough, zero after effects
I dont think I've been eating much spicy food lately and my tolerance must've really dipped. Took the first bite and it was like holy fuckkkk, I started coughing from the reaper powder going everywhere and my head started spinning from the pain, had to get up and walk around. Got down the slider and most of the rest of the tender instantly ended up on the toilet hunched over felt like I was getting cattle prodded in the stomach.
Didn't sleep the whole rest of the night. If I got in one position and didn't move it would be okay, but the slightest movement and my stomach contents got stirred up and it felt like I was getting stabbed over and over with a fiery pitch fork... for 6 + hours. Almost called out sick the next day, maybe got an hour or two of sleep.
For the rest of the next day any time I pissed was like pissing straight fire, and it burned at a horrible level for the next 20 minutes or so after. Like an awful 10/10 pain that made me want to throw up
Crazy, the only time I've felt anything similar was when eating a pure reaper pepper raw. I've never had any stomach issues from spice before. The chicken was definitely wayyy more coated in reaper powder than usual, but still wild to have that same effect from a meal I've been underwhelmed by a half dozen times before.
Now I understand better why people with no tolerance hate spicy foods
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: feevers] 2
#28158769 - 01/26/23 05:38 PM (1 year, 1 day ago) |
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Thai and Indian are definitely top contenders on the spice circuit.
Some Caribbean style jerk chicken or spicy gumbo could also fit the bill.
And whenever I have anything remotely Italian, I'll always be thinkin' about dried chili flake and fruity Calabrian peppers as an adjunct.
Mexican moles and various other salsas can pack a flavorful punch as well.
I discovered pickled Malagueta peppers when eating at a Brazilian restaurant, those things (and almost any pickled or roasted or raw pepper) are amazing.
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: ChRnZN] 2
#28172181 - 02/04/23 03:30 PM (11 months, 16 days ago) |
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If it's not spicy it's boring.
I find you need something acidic with spicy food. Lemon , lime or vinegar really unlock the spice and flavour. Try tom yum or larb pork. My two favourite Thai dishes.
I regularly do my own fermented hot sauces from homegrown Chili. I live for that fermented acidic chili flavour.
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: Markamello] 2
#28180016 - 02/09/23 06:56 PM (11 months, 11 days ago) |
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Went to the Thai restaurant I talked about in the OP where you can order by the number of chilis you want in your dish, it's been over a year since I've been there since it's kind of far away and I've been working later
30 used to be my go to number, and it was usually like a 5/10 on my tolerance scale. I don't know if they have a new chef, are using different chilis or what but when I ordered it tonight my yellow curry came out literally red/purple... I laughed out loud when they put it down and was like "uh oh". It was basically a ground chili curry... dried and fresh combined. Fucking heavenly flavor, but it's the first time I've almost had to tap out with spicy food. The flavor was so good I couldn't have stopped if I wanted to. My wife dipped the corner of her fork into the curry to taste like a single drop and was coughing and sweating for the next 10 minutes, liquid fire but enveloped in delicious warm spices and coconut milk
Can't wait to go back and try a noodle stir fry with the heat cranked up
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Re: Any other spicy food addicts? [Re: feevers] 2
#28310560 - 05/07/23 05:25 PM (8 months, 17 days ago) |
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When i was in Jamaica i bought dome scotch bonnet hot sauce that slaps! Not the biggest of accomplishments but i held the record at my local bww for their blazin challenge. ate 12 of their hottest wings in less than 3 minutes lmao. they were out of t-shorts so i got a free bottle of hot sauce from em.
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Love spicy ova here!
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Quote:
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That lemon pepper chile is amazing.
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San Pedro Girl said: My favorite chiles are jalapeños
Im with you on that one, I’m a true fan of the jalapeño. I grow jalapeños every year and I put them on everything. Some of them are hot though, I remember a couple from last year that blew my head off, tears, the whole thing.
I’m growing a couple new hot peppers this year that I’ve never grown before. Can’t remember the names right now, they’re supposed to be pretty hot we’ll see. Will post some pics when they come in for you pepper fans 
Edit, I just got Sriracha sauce on my fucking wall! god damn life is good
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Making some vinegar hot sauces, usually i puree an old lactic acid ferments and add some ground hot pepper and vinegar, but I was filtering some homemade vinegar and it was taking too long to separate the dregs. Pawpaw vinegar sludge with added ground hot pepper and ground spices. White vinegar and salt with Ari Charspita.
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Lacto-fermented roasted bell peppers with onions and hot peppers for heat. Best tasting sauce IMO, needs to be refridegerated if you don't add vinegar. Will keep at least a year refridgerated. Haven't made any this year, need to do that.
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